Metropolitan Tikhon attends Inauguration of Pope Francis

March 18, 2013

His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon is one of a number of Orthodox hierarchs attending the Inauguration of Pope Francis in Rome on Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Representatives from most of the Orthodox Churches are present, including His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople. Read more here.

On Wednesday evening, March 20, 2013, His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, who chairs the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department of External Church Relations, welcomed His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, for the celebration of the Great Kanon of Saint Andrew of Crete at Rome’s Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine. Accompanying Metropolitan Tikhon was Archpriest Eric G. Tosi, OCA Secretary. Read more here.

The Orthodox Church in America

The Mission of The Orthodox Church in America, the local autocephalous Orthodox Christian Church, is to be faithful in fulfilling the commandment of Christ to “Go into all the world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit…”